... move each year. . . But the house on Mango Street is not what the way they told it at all. It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. Likewise as a teenager, Cisneros' family ... had accomplished their goal of purchasing their own house but, "Cisneros regarded the house as ugly and shabby and ... nothing like what she imagined a house should be" ("The House on Mango Street" ... ...

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